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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.3 beta thread

« Last post by f0dder on September 18, 2006, 06:34 AM »

Small suggestion: How about adding a right click context menu for copy, cut and paste functions. Sometimes they're more useful than the keyboard shortcuts.

-Eóin (September 18, 2006, 05:31 AM)

Ah, yeah, my younger brother mentioned that too - I thought that was standard RichEdit functionality, but appearantly I'll have to code it myself. I've added it to the ToDoList - as a low priority item, but it's probably easy so it should be done for 1.3

AbteriX: I left "New" enabled since it can be useful to make a new note, without the hassle of downloading fSekrit from the internet. Password could be cleared on "New", but that wouldn't change much - after all, people could just re-enter that password after making a new note. I *did* disable import and export

I'll think a bit about it though. Anybody else have comments on "File->New"?

File->readonly will now be grayed out after setting read-only, added in beta-2 (will make some more fixes before uploading a new beta).

Your "Save as read only" is a good suggestion, and will get around some stupid problems, like the one in your latest post. Obviously I didn't test it extensively, hence: BETA. Thanks for giving it a bash!

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fSekrit / Re: Read only password support?

« Last post by f0dder on September 18, 2006, 02:54 AM »

Added read-only notes support in 1.3-beta1

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fSekrit / Beta: fSekrit 1.3 beta thread

« Last post by f0dder on September 18, 2006, 02:51 AM »

Believe it or not, I'm still working on fSekrit

I've set the release schedule for v1.3 at my birthday, October 15th. But I already have a beta version ready, for those that are interested (I suspect AbteriX will be, since I've added read-only notes support ).

So far:
BETA1:

• added:  read-only notes, finally
• bugfix: changing key on unsaved document would crash
• bugfix: saving an empty document would crash

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Living Room / Re: media icons - suggestions please.

« Last post by f0dder on September 18, 2006, 12:49 AM »

I really like the famfamfam icons, very purrdy. And now I'm going to waste some time browsing dlanham and deviantart

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General Software Discussion / Re: Advantages and disadvantages of NNTP Newsreaders

« Last post by f0dder on September 18, 2006, 12:28 AM »

I personally use Outlook Express for NNTP - and only for that. All other NNTP clients I've come about had pretty disagreeable user interfaces - especially Agent

OE isn't perfect though, it's a bit sluggish if you keep downloaded messages and get large message bases, etc etc etc. I guess I'll give Omea a try.

EDIT: gave Omea a try, a bit too much on the heavy end for me. It used 50% CPU (which means 100% on one of my dual cores) when typing in the name of a group to watch, and for some reason it thought I was author of all posts in comp.lang.asm.x86. Oh well, it was worth a shot

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Living Room / Re: If I got one of these 20-inch laptops, would someone carry it for me?

« Last post by f0dder on September 17, 2006, 03:11 PM »

Haha, that looks insane - I'll read the article later    

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Living Room / Re: Just HOW do you tie a *censor* tie?

« Last post by f0dder on September 17, 2006, 12:02 PM »

Argh, my girlfriend just managed to tie it with one single attempt, following one of the guides I failed miserably on. HUMILIATION! >_<

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Living Room / Just HOW do you tie a *censor* tie?

« Last post by f0dder on September 17, 2006, 10:52 AM »

Okay.

So, the other day, following my girlfriend around town like a zombie while she was shopping for shoes, I got a free tie voucher, and just for fun I went to whatever shop and traded it for a free silk tie.

Today I tried tying the damn thing, just for fun. Oh my what a mistake that was.  . It's been a while since I've been that close to smashing up things. I mean, it seems physically, mathematically and logically IMPOSSIBLE to do.

I've googled around, looked at arcane drawings, and even got a mind-numbing video link from srikat in the donationcoder IRC channel.

About the most sane explanation was one of my friends, who wrote "You take a möbius strip and fold the ends according to Heissenberg's equations, until you have an abstract plane, which you can then put around your neck".

Argh. Good thing I'm not a corporate slave yet.

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Living Room / Re: Do you remember THIS guy?

« Last post by f0dder on September 17, 2006, 02:50 AM »

That's a very amazing piece of work

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Living Room / Re: What slows Windows down? See for yourself....

« Last post by f0dder on September 16, 2006, 06:19 PM »

Shell extension is true, but that's just some few more registry entries to read, not an own process. This can't be measurable. (At least, I think so.)

-wr975 (September 16, 2006, 05:49 PM)

Registry entries to read, DLLs to load...

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Living Room / Re: What slows Windows down? See for yourself....

« Last post by f0dder on September 16, 2006, 05:35 PM »

wr975: WinRAR installs an explorer context menu extension, that could account for something.

Does VMWare fail if you don't start services set to manual?

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Living Room / Re: Wireless Networks and Proxy Servers

« Last post by f0dder on September 16, 2006, 01:07 PM »

Don't think so - you'll probably have to resort to one of those proxy switching apps or plugins.

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Living Room / Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by f0dder on September 16, 2006, 11:19 AM »

Couldn't find a similar thread with the search feature, nor the first five pages of topics here in Living Room, so I decided to make a new thread. Here goes! (oh, theres's another thread alright, but not about physical desktop).


Two 17" TFTs running 1280x1024 - an acer al1722 and an al1715. The thing in the back is a

Ti-83 calculator, 18-in-1 card reader and 3-port USB hub, 80gig seagate, icybox usb2/firewire enclosure with 120gig disk, K750i cellphone ontop of a VIM "cheat sheet", a box of CD-Rs and a box of DVD-Rs.

On top of the workstation to the left is a (defunct ) netgear wlan access point, and ontop of the testbox on thje right is a ZyXEL ADSL modem/router and an 8port 100mbit switch.


The machines... ASUS A8N SLI Premium (for stability & passively cooled chipset, not for SLI), AMD64x2 4400/2.21GHz, 4x512MB Corsair ram, Plextor PX-716A DVD burner, liteon SHD-16P1S DVD reader, 2x160gb maxtor sata in raid/mirror + a 80gig maxtor ide for "scratch" use, GeForce6600/256 PCI-e.

The test-machine is a P2-MMX@350MHz with 64 megs of ram, usually a voodoo3 PCI (but atm "whatever" I had lying around), Intel eepro 100 (with flashable rom!), a promise fasttrack tx133 to support large drives, and two drive bays. Machine is pretty defunct at the moment, though

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Living Room / Re: Top 100 PC Games of the 21st Century (so far)

« Last post by f0dder on September 16, 2006, 06:00 AM »

Josh: based wholly on unit sales... so not whether the games are any good

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General Software Discussion / Re: What happened to Big Bang Enterprises?

« Last post by f0dder on September 15, 2006, 09:50 PM »

Seems to work just fine here, Ken.

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fSekrit / Re: u3P Version

« Last post by f0dder on September 15, 2006, 07:26 PM »

Hm, u3p version?

I haven't read into those "new-fangled" flash devices, to be honest it hasn't interested me much - a regular usb flash serves me very well. Could you explain what that u3 stuff is good for, and what I'd need to implement to support it?

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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.2 needs bashing!

« Last post by f0dder on September 15, 2006, 07:24 PM »

Version 1.2 has been released - so I'm closing this topic

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Developer's Corner / Re: Jeff Atwood Blog: Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark?

« Last post by f0dder on September 15, 2006, 07:23 PM »

Even "just" compiling one language to another isn't necessarily trivial; C++ used to be a frontend for C, and iirc the comeau compiler (currently the most compliant compiler, and only one that supports some of the _very_ advanced C++ stuff wrt. templates) also depend on another C++ compiler...

Also, google's AJAX toolkit compiles from JAVA to JavaScript.

But anything that outputs to vbscript can hardly be that complicated

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC crashes on right-click

« Last post by f0dder on September 15, 2006, 05:30 AM »

take a microsoft component and stick it into a decent app and right away it collapses... maybe it's time to do away with the explorer pane.. eh, mouser?

-lanux128 (September 14, 2006, 08:22 PM)

It's a custom component written by somebody else, not Microsoft - hold back on the flamehorse

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fSekrit / Re: fSekrit 1.2 done!

« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2006, 04:55 PM »

Any changes since the last beta or do I not need to update?

-allen (September 14, 2006, 01:58 PM)

Executable has been compressed, non-implemented Replace has been removed, and it's no longer regarded a "beta"

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fSekrit / fSekrit 1.2 done!

« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2006, 10:15 AM »

As topic states, 1.2 is done - now you'll just have to wait for mouser to update the download page etc

Available here: http://fsekrit.donationcoder.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the Greatest Software Ever Written?

« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2006, 10:14 AM »

housetier, as I see it you can currently have multiple "buffers" per "window" (where, in the windows version, a "window" can be either a tab or another instance of vim). I'd prefer if opening a new file would always create a visual indication that a file was opened... I'm off to work, so I can't explain it better right now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the Greatest Software Ever Written?

« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2006, 07:43 AM »

I wouldn't mind to see the "buffers" die, though, and only have "tabs" left.

-f0dder (September 14, 2006, 06:58 AM)

I wouldn't like that, i love being able to divide the screen in half, with 2 buffers on each side!

Actually, one thing i don't like about vim is the fact that, if you're editing a not saved buffer, you can't open another one unless you save the current one or divide the screen. (or open a new tab )

-jgpaiva (September 14, 2006, 07:38 AM)

That's a useful feature, sure, but IMHO it shouldn't be implemented via "buffers", but via the UI code...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the Greatest Software Ever Written?

« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2006, 06:58 AM »

I've recently started using/learning VIM for my coding tasks (but still fire up Notepad++ for regular text files). The syntax highlighting in VIM is great, it has powerful RegEx support, and while the "modal" nature is confusing at first, it's very powerful... with just a couple of keystrokes, you can delete a {block} of code, delete the next three words, etc etc etc. Features that are pretty handy when programming. And it's nice that you don't have to take your hands off the keyboard.

I wouldn't mind to see the "buffers" die, though, and only have "tabs" left.

but let me you that controlling the cursor movement via the keyboard

-Lashiec

Huh? When using a text editor, I hate having to use the mouse.

EMACS is too big and bloated imho, and has an even steeper learning curve than VIM.

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Best E-mail Client / Re: I wish I could punch the idiots that made TheBat!

« Last post by f0dder on September 14, 2006, 06:22 AM »

but I'm not a fan of spam. One way to avoid spam is to never download the images sent in spam, as they're supposidly tracked (if the image "149874345232.jpg" is downloaded then "[email protected]" is a valid e-mail).

I've disabled html formatted mails and images, so that won't bite me... but it could be annoying if you rely on html mails.

Bug sucks anyway, sorry that you lost your messages :/